Neil Jordan on Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt
‘I didn’t discover rationality until I went to England’: Neil Jordan on Tom Cruise, sandwich-boarding and seeing his dad’s ghost https://t.co/krpfMEnn5W
- The Guardian (@guardian) June 13, 2024
In an interview with The Guardian, Neil Jordan opens up about working Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in Interview with the Vampire
Interview with the Vampire, his 1994 adaptation of Anne Rice’s gothic novel, left Jordan with enduring respect for Tom Cruise. “It must have been very difficult for him. The entire world said, ‘You are miscast.’”
But the actor’s turn as the cruel, sensualist vampire Lestat eventually won over critics, “He’s a great actor,” says Jordan. “If he says he can do something, he will do it in a way that people will be shocked by. Tom has become the last remaining film star. It’s kind of strange.”
Brad Pitt, who played the sad, soulful vampire Louis, faced different hurdles. Arriving straight after finishing Legends of the Fall, he was exhausted and became more so because filming was at night. “It simply wore him out,” says Jordan. So did the nature of Louis. “Brad’s a very active guy, that was the direction he wanted to go in. The passivity of the character got him down.”
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